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Re: (ET) battery cables

I think that's when I bought mine. I think they are marked in metric so you do have to play around a bit, but it becomes pretty clear which to use. 

Mine says 'Best Power' (wonder where it was made??) Model YYQ-120A
10-120 mm^2 range
8 dies
Forget where I got it, and how much I paid, but I'm pretty sure I'm too cheap to have paid over $100. It was new. 

Looks a lot like his:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hydraulic-Crimping-Tool-Kit-16-Ton-Wire-Cable-Crimper-/330554371671

but mine has fewer dies.

And here's a bunch of other ones:

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hydraulic-cable-crimper

It is nice to use an appropriate (or nearly appropriate) tool for a job!

-SteveS







On 8/11/2013 5:34 PM, David Roden (Akron OH USA) wrote:

On 11 Aug 2013 at 13:10, Jeff Antonucci wrote:


Harbor freight sells a good kit with several size dies for the different
wire gauges.  I use mine all the time.

There was quite a bit of discussion about this kit a few years ago on the
(road) EV list.  A lot of folks were interested because it's MUCH cheaper
than the name brand crimpers and dies.  A top-shelf Thomas and Betts hex
crimper from Grainger costs over $800 with a set of dies!  They have a
Burndy for "only" $545.  Either of these is a pro caliber tool, probably
something you'll pass on to your kid, but that's a heck of a lot of moolah
for a tool you'll only use a few (or even a few dozen) times.

However, some of the participants in that discussion said that the HF
crimper's dies were the wrong sizes (or else were marked wrong), and you 
had
to sort of experiment until you found the right one for the lug you were
crimping - and that for some lugs there wasn't one that was entirely right.
IIRC, one person suggested that they might really be metric dies that had
been "re-purposed" for US lugs.

I take it you haven't had any such problems?



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